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A bone [dog] sled, dog whip, spear and knife of the Arctic Highlanders – Vintage Wall Art

A bone [dog] sled, dog whip, spear and knife of the Arctic Highlanders, 1835 — antique engraving
A bone [dog] sled, dog whip, spear and knife of the Arctic Highlanders, 1835. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This antique engraving of A bone [dog] sled, dog whip, spear and knife of the Arctic Highlanders brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A bone [dog] sled, dog whip, spear and knife of the Arctic Highlanders

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Few objects in this group are as tied to travel as the bone-framed dog sled and whip, shown here beside a spear and knife. In 1818, John Ross's expedition met the Arctic Highlanders, an Inuit community in the Melville Bay region of northwest Greenland, and these everyday tools became part of the record of that contact. Dog sleds allowed hunting and travel across sea ice, and the use of bone in the frame reflects the scarcity of timber in the Arctic. The engraving appeared in Ross's published account, though the date and book title here come from a caption that has not been fully checked.

Created / published1835
Medium1 print : engraving.
NotesIllus. in: John C. Ross, A Voyage of Discovery, 1835. Ref. copy in SSF(Gr) - SLEDS & SLEIGHS. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,174 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158950

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